Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I am typing on my mom's computer. She introduced me to personal computers (some time ago). She was fairly fluent in DOS (explanatory n...

This is a question I haven't asked myself. I have long looked for reasonable and reasonably honest conservatives. It is frustrating, b...

David Leonard picks cherries in a generally good op-ed . I agree entirely with his general conclusion that Democrats should run a populist ...

I made something in honor of #sharpiegate . Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/vTm6KPaFAt — Sam Spiegel 🆘 (@UNSEATpac) September 5, 2019

This is a twitter overflow. It is the landing page of a link I put in a tweet, because I didn't feel like making a long twitter thread...

This is here because it is totally not worth anyone's time. The actual topic is Bret Stephens (who is not, in fact, a bedbug -- rettore...

Drum has a good skeptical post on Warren Elizabeth Warren and the Slow Boring of Hard Boards which includes "The story provides a ...

Dean "The Optics aren't as bad as they look" Baquet just confirmed that he actually doesn't do his job any more. He doesn...

I never expected that after the national divorce liberals would get custody of The CIA The FBI The NFL and the most profitable megacorpo...

I think I have just found the ultimate abyss of idiocy https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1158734571447435264?s=20 Patrick Ruffini ...

nomoremisterniceblog almost states the bitter truth, but he's too nice to tell us what fools we are. he wrote I don't want to r...

Comments are closed on this post . I think it is an average Belle Waring post. I am going to comment here. But first I want to discuss th...

I hope and trust that this won't convince any religious people. I wouldn't want to do that. But I do trust it won't. This i...

I wrote a post with this title which is poor, solitary, nasty, and long. the bottom line is I say Friedman was always a Keynesian except...

Brad DeLong noted that new Keynesians are actually Friedmanites. On all points where 1960s Keynesians disagreed with Friedman, they conced...

Kevin Drum has a funny but also genuinely interesting post on how boomers are not really to blame for messing up America (he half tongue in...

Not the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost. There are other trinities in our religious tradition. One is faith hope and caring. They sure a...

Read Brad's post . my comment on "Milton Friedman's redefinition of "neutral monetary policy" to mean "whatev...

I think it might be time for an update on the crudest of tiny sample reduced form analysis of fiscal policy and the current recovery. One...

Barry Ritholtz has doubts about data presentation at the New York Times His commentary is very brief "What is this about? Is it guil...